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The Curse of the Strawberry Moon: A Caviston Sisters Mystery
A full red moon rises over a wedding at a Finger Lakes winery as fireworks explode unexpectedly above the celebration. Was it a timing accident, or were they set off early on purpose to cover up the murder of ’80s rock star Jeremiah Redfern nearby?
Across Keuka Lake, the Caviston sisters watch the show from their deck on a warm June evening, unaware of how their lives will soon become entwined in the unfolding mystery. Curiosity about a Seneca Indian curse draws them deep into the investigation before they realize their own lives may be endangered as they help Detective Tyrone Kane decipher motives tangled tighter than a grapevine.
The Curse of the Strawberry Moon's riveting plot delves intimately into the Finger Lakes wine industry with a touch of rock-and-roll attitude.
Across Keuka Lake, the Caviston sisters watch the show from their deck on a warm June evening, unaware of how their lives will soon become entwined in the unfolding mystery. Curiosity about a Seneca Indian curse draws them deep into the investigation before they realize their own lives may be endangered as they help Detective Tyrone Kane decipher motives tangled tighter than a grapevine.
The Curse of the Strawberry Moon's riveting plot delves intimately into the Finger Lakes wine industry with a touch of rock-and-roll attitude.
397 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 16, 2016
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About the author
Mary Pat Hyland
12 books40 followersMary Pat Hyland is an award-winning former newspaper journalist and Amazon Top 100 Bestseller who writes novels featuring Irish-American characters set in the Finger Lakes wine country and Southern Tier region of New York State.
Her latest novel is When Stardust Fell on Keuka Lake.
It is the third book in the Caviston Sisters Mystery series, preceded by The Curse of the Strawberry Moon and The Water Mystic of Woodland Springs. Hyland is also the author of the best-selling novel, The House With the Wraparound Porch, a family saga spanning four generations from 1920-2006. Her other books include The Maeve Kenny series: The Cyber Miracles (Book 1), A Sudden Gift of Fate (Book 2), and A Wisdom of Owls (Book 3); 3/17 (an Irish trad music parody of Dante's Inferno); The Terminal Diner (a suspense novel); and In the Shadows of the Onion Domes (collected short stories).
If you like stories that feature gourmet cooking, wine, humor, romance, and a bit of straying into magical realism, you'll enjoy her tales.
Her latest novel is When Stardust Fell on Keuka Lake.
It is the third book in the Caviston Sisters Mystery series, preceded by The Curse of the Strawberry Moon and The Water Mystic of Woodland Springs. Hyland is also the author of the best-selling novel, The House With the Wraparound Porch, a family saga spanning four generations from 1920-2006. Her other books include The Maeve Kenny series: The Cyber Miracles (Book 1), A Sudden Gift of Fate (Book 2), and A Wisdom of Owls (Book 3); 3/17 (an Irish trad music parody of Dante's Inferno); The Terminal Diner (a suspense novel); and In the Shadows of the Onion Domes (collected short stories).
If you like stories that feature gourmet cooking, wine, humor, romance, and a bit of straying into magical realism, you'll enjoy her tales.
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January 15, 2019
A fun romp through upstate New York. Mix in music and mystery.
August 23, 2016
Curse of the Strawberry Moon is above all a LOCAL book, written by an author who knows the finger lakes region of New York inside out. Mary Pat Hyland knows plenty about the complexity of small town living and the way that lives and events intertwine. The book feels real in all its details: wine-making, book selling, massage therapy, clubbing, drug trafficking, police procedure, the lifestyle of aging rock stars, the hardscrabble edges where people move from job to job, the natural beauty of the lake country. The Caviston sisters seem like real sisters. It is a full portrait of a place and the people who live there. The incredibly complicated events that led to the murder are consistent with the complexity of life in this place, but solving the murder was the least important part of the book for me.
The pleasures of the table are also featured. The precise, sophisticated descriptions of good wine and good meals are by themselves almost worth the purchase price.
This easy-going, well-written novel is a discovery in the way that finding a great local restaurant, seeing a brilliant production by a regional theater company, or hearing an outstanding concert by local musicians are discoveries. I am looking forward to reading the next Caviston sisters mystery.
The pleasures of the table are also featured. The precise, sophisticated descriptions of good wine and good meals are by themselves almost worth the purchase price.
This easy-going, well-written novel is a discovery in the way that finding a great local restaurant, seeing a brilliant production by a regional theater company, or hearing an outstanding concert by local musicians are discoveries. I am looking forward to reading the next Caviston sisters mystery.
January 21, 2019
No spoilers here but this was a very good book. I loved that it is set in a place close to home. I enjoyed the mystery, intrigue & romance..... The ins and outs of small town life are portrayed exceptionally well. Makes me wish I knew the Caviston sisters!
August 15, 2021
This story is set at Keuka Lake - one of the Finger Lakes in upstate NY. Fun to read about a location you've also lived and made memories. A who-dunnit that was fun to try to figure out. Good read!
September 30, 2016
A wonderful whodunit, set in the upstate NY Finger Lakes, this story is interlaced around the Seneca Indian folk tale about the Keuka Lake being hungry for bodies during the June Strawberry Moon.
There’s murder, drugs, romance and rock 'n roll coupled with strong women characters in the Caviston sisters.
I highly recommend this entertaining read.
There’s murder, drugs, romance and rock 'n roll coupled with strong women characters in the Caviston sisters.
I highly recommend this entertaining read.
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